Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — BACK TO THE RIGHT CHANNEL [ARTICLE]

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Privilege of the Democratic Party Is to Restore a Safe and Sane Government. ■ ■ ; . ' . .. I .... ■■ " The beginning of the Roosevelt legend is interesting. Back in the eighties an American magazine published a series of artfries on ranch life and the hunting trail, illustrated by the pencil of the late Fred Remington and signed by a name famous in the history both of New York politics and Western steamboating—Roosevelt. Later it was reported that a new Daniel had come to judgment in the po-

lice department of New York. Then came the Spanish-American war and the famous regiment recruited from Fifth avenue and. Dead Alan’s Gulch. The assassination of McKinley occurred at a strategic moment, when American politics was about to take a new turn and crystalline about either an idea or a person Roosevelt's dramatis entrance into the White Hquse turned the scale. An era of personal government began. There is something wrong with the succession, however. Taft is to Roosevelt what Mazarin was to Richelieu. The founder of the dynasty has decided to govern once more. The viceroy business is played out. Meanwhile the Democratic party, through men like Clark, Underwood, Baldwin, Wilson, Harmon and others, has redirected the attention of the country to the power of ideas in politics. It is bur guess that personal government is doomed and that soon the Roosevelts and Cannons will be numbered among tne .popular idols which have lost their ’ sanctity.—St. Louis Republic. su